On 20 Sep 2008, at 5:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> (apologies if this shows up twice; I'm trying a different smtp  
> server since my last couple messages never showed up)
>
> On Sep 20, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> BibDesk tries various encodings for external file groups, though not
>> the one from your preferences. It tries UTF-8 before Windows Latin 1,
>> so if it's UTF-8 it should use that. If it doesn't, there should be
>> some characters that are not UTF-8, or the download messes thing up.
>
> It's probably using ASCII, actually, unless the patch I posted to
>

Shouldn't ASCII not just fail if there are non-ASCII characters?

> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03064.html
>
> was applied to the trunk.  I think I tested it with a number of  
> cases, but James never posted back saying whether it worked, and I  
> forgot about it.  In my repo, it looks like I added that code, then  
> changed the calls to it to pass 0 instead of NSASCIIStringEncoding.
>

That's not applied ATM.

Christiaan

>>
>>
>> On 20 Sep 2008, at 3:12 PM, Mathias Hofmann wrote:
>>
>>> How can I set the character encoding for an external file group?
>>>
>>> In Bibdesk (version 1.3.18), I used the "external file group"  
>>> feature
>>> to "subcribe" to a URL (http://www.bibsonomy.org/bib/group/inain).
>>> This is a generated bibtex-file from a (collaborative) bibliography
>>> database. My browser reports it to be UTF-encoded. Saving it and
>>> manually importing it into Bibdesk (which is set to open/export  
>>> using
>>> UTF8 encoding) works fine.
>>>
>>> However, the entries of the external file group's items appear to  
>>> have
>>> a wrong encoding. It looks as if Bibdesk would take the data to be
>>> encoded as Windows Latin 1.
>>>
>>> Weird. Any thoughts?
>>
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